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I've stumbled across tons of music resources recently while trying to find rare punk mp3s. Here's a truncated listing.

Killed by Death.org- this is a streaming radio page for Killed by Death, the infamous LP series that has rereleased material by literally hundreds of obscure, forgotten, and purposfully buried American punk bands from the late seventies and eighties. The KBD PUNK STREAM plays garage, snotty rock, and sloppy punk, seventy-seven style punk, and idiotic teenage punk from the basements and garages of the past. The KBD HARDCORE STREAM plays 80's thrash, early straight-edge, and rare songs by the legends of hardcore.

The KBD.org links section is stocked with rare punk and miscellaneous Mp3 blogs,-

Something I Learned Today's front page features Tar, the Proletariat, the Beguiled, a Minneapolis area HC comp from the early eighties feauturing Husker Du, and the Chosen Few.

Middle Aged Youth's archives focuses on 80's hardcore like Wolfpack and the great Albany Style hardcore comp, while the metal section includes the original Morbid Angel demo and songs by Injustice, the 80s death metal band of "rappers" Ill Bill and Necro! The Mp3s expire after a while, so get on there soon.

Strange Reaction has a great indexed archive of random punk 7"s, some of which he has no info about besides the liner notes. You might recognize some the names from your local hometown scene when you were 15.

Dressed for the Bomb is a well layed-out blog filled with the rarest of unsung punk and rock.

CRUD CRUD has this to say about itself: "...a tour through the stacks of records, demo tapes, etc. that surround me. No recycled MP3s, CD tracks, or reissues here. Average price paid for the records below is $3. Very few I have spent more than $5 on. You also will get a few book jackets from time to time. I present to you some of my favorites. It keeps the guilt of hording this crud distant." This not so much punk as thrift-store weirdness, exotica, and rarities along with exhaustve articles on each selection and reflections on the joys of finding gold in stacks of worthless records.

Each of these blogs has a links lists of other Mp3 blogs, so that within a few hours you could have a collection of Mp3s of songs that record collectors have spent lifetimes trying accumulate.

Speaking of record collectors, I can't leave out everybody's friend Harry Balls', who has really been putting a lot of work into his Youtube page . There you will find punk, garage, mod, freakbeat, hardcore, soul and psych videos and live performances. I don't even know how he finds all this footage, but it's good to know that non-self-destructive/antisocial pursuits have been occupying at least some of his time down there in Florida.

South of Gilman street is a streaming radio/music database project chronicalling the east bay punk scene of the 80s and 90s. It features a streaming radio station with a request feature. There aren't enough users on there to clog up the works, so that means you can instantly listen to your choice from the discographies of bands like Jawbreaker, Operation Ivy, Crimpshrine, Filth, fifteen, etc.

The Love Song.org has a small batch of music that they consider to make up the development of the "emo" sound- means the list starts strong with artists like Moss Icon, Hated and Iconoclast and ends poorly with drama club anthems by Braid and Promise Ring.